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#homelessness

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Politics Canada

Older Canadians and seniors with dementia are increasingly becoming homeless due to renovictions, escalating living costs, and the lack of affordable long-term care homes. “The number of people in the 61to­65 age range keeps growing at about two per cent every year,” he said. “If you look at it from 55­plus, around COVID, they accounted for about a quarter of our shelter population, and now we're up to onethird.” #housing #LTC #homelessness #seniors #renovictions #canada ctvnews.ca/canada/article/were

Mo Singh Khunkhun, 68, sits on a bed in the Union Gospel Mission overnight shelter in Vancouver, B.C., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
CTVNews · Elderly homeless population increasing in Canada: ‘I really don’t know where to even begin’In major cities across the country, those who provide shelter and services for people who are homeless say they are seeing more elderly people turn to them for help.
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The Christian Science Monitor

More Than Words is a bookstore, but one that does more than sell $3.8 million worth of merchandise a year. It serves young people who are dealing with homelessness or legal challenges and gives them a place where they belong. #solutions #books #homelessness

csmonitor.com/Books/2025/0602/

Posted into MONITORING SOLUTIONS @monitoring-solutions-csmonitor

The Christian Science Monitor · ‘A sense of belonging.’ How this Boston bookstore changes lives.By Jacob Posner
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Dinah 🕊🇺🇦

"The median household in California has more wealth than the median household in most other states. Yet this fact masks the reality that more than 40 percent of households lack the financial reserves to meet their basic needs for a few months if their income drops ... Moreover, about one in five households in California (21%) report being unable to afford monthly bills"
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#California#Inequality#Homelessness
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CBC Ottawa

2 opposition MPPs have created a plan to solve Ontario's homelessness crisis in 10 years. Could it work?
A Green and Liberal MPP have come together to co-sponsor a private member's bill they say would aim to end homelessness in Ontario in 10 years. Experts agree the bill could go a long way to address the...
#politics #homelessness #housing #Ontario #News #Canada
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

Together with Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles must be one of the most naturally beautiful cities in the world. And despite Rio being bigger than LA, it's actually LA that has a higher number of homeless people - even though the US is way more richer than Brazil...

"Adequate housing is an internationally protected human right. But the United States, which has been treating housing primarily as a commodity, is failing to protect this right for large numbers of people, with houselessness a pervasive problem. In the US city of Los Angeles, California, where the monetary value of property has risen to extreme heights while wages at the lower end of the economic spectrum have stagnated for decades, houselessness has exploded into public view. Policymakers addressing the issue publicly acknowledge the necessity of increased housing to solve houselessness, but their primary response on the ground has been criminalization of those without it.

The criminalization of houselessness means treating people who live on the streets as criminals and directing resources towards arresting and citing them, institutionalizing them, removing them from visible public spaces, denying them basic services and sanitation, confiscating and destroying their property, and pressuring them into substandard shelter situations that share some characteristics with jails. Criminalization is expensive, but temporarily removes signs of houselessness and extreme poverty from the view of the housed public. Criminalization is ineffective because it punishes people for living in poverty while ignoring and even reaffirming the causes of that poverty embedded in the economic system and the incentives that drive housing development and underdevelopment. Criminalization is cruel."

hrw.org/report/2024/08/14/you-

Police remove an unhoused woman from her tent
Human Rights Watch · “You Have to Move!”The 337-page report, “‘You Have to Move!’ The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles,” documents the experiences of people living on the streets and in vehicles, temporary shelters, and parks in Los Angeles, as they struggle to survive while facing criminalization and governmental failures to prioritize eviction prevention or access to permanent housing. Law enforcement and sanitation “sweeps” force unhoused people out of public view, often wasting resources on temporary shelter and punishments that do not address the underlying needs. Tens of thousands of people are living in the streets of Los Angeles; death rates among the unhoused have skyrocketed.
#USA#LosAngeles#LA
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Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I want to live in a progressive #IndependentScotland...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

With no #foodbanks...

With no #homelessness...

With no #childpoverty...

With no #trident...

With no #westminster policies...

With free #healthcare for all...

With a #respect for all peoples ...

As a #member of the families of the EU...🇪🇺

Where people are #citizens not #subjects ...

As a country that #protects and #supports the most #vulnerable

All the above and more is possible...

A #ScottishRepublic... #YouYesYet...🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Scottish Flag... a mid blue background with a white diagonal cross...
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Killian Mangan🇮🇪

STOP EVICTIONS—SIGN BELOW

🏘️ This open letter is in conjunction with CATU Ireland and MASI - sign and share with friends and family if you want to be a part of putting an end to Emergency Accommodation, IPAS, and other precarious living evictions! ⬇️

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsOpen Letter Stop the Eviction of residents in Emergency Direct Provision AccommodationTo IPAS, The Department of Integration, Department of Housing and City and County Councils, CATU and MASI demands the withdrawal of eviction notices by IPAS and the provision of suitable accommodation and wrap-around support for people being threatened in direct provision and emergency accommodation. Hundreds of people are being threatened with eviction this month. They have been told to leave current direct provision accommodation, uproot themselves from their communities and move across the country, or potentially end up on the streets. CATU Ireland, will defend our members from evictions, discrimination and mistreatment by the state and private landlords. We demand that IPAS: 1) Withdraw the eviction notices immediately. We also demand that the Department of Integration, Department of Housing and City and County Councils engage with CATU as a union and do the following: 2) Organise suitable alternative accommodation which is agreed by residents. 3) Provide wrap around mental health and community support services for every resident.
#Ireland#Irish#IrishPolitics
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JamesWNeal

People in families with children had the largest single year increase. Between 2023 and 2024, 39% more people in families with children experienced #homelessness Overall, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 18%. Nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in 2024, reflecting a 33%
increase over 2023. Between 2023 and 2024, children (under the age of 18) were the age group that experienced the largest increase in homelessness. (link in final post).

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JamesWNeal

put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the end of the expanded child tax credit, have exacerbated this already stressed system.
Nearly all populations reached record levels. #Homelessness among people in families with children, individuals, individuals with chronic patterns of homelessness, people staying in unsheltered locations, people staying in sheltered locations, and unaccompanied youth all reached the highest recorded numbers
in 2024. 3/4

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JamesWNeal

Our worsening national affordable #housing crisis, rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism have stretched #homelessness services systems to their limits. Additional public health crises, natural disasters that displaced people from their homes, rising numbers of people immigrating to the U.S., and the end to homelessness prevention programs . . . 2/4

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JamesWNeal

When people say "we need to take to the streets," I always think about how many of us already live there.

(HUD) The number of people experiencing #homelessness on a single night in 2024 was the highest ever recorded. 771,480 people – or about 23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S. - experienced homelessness in anemergency shelter, safe haven, transitional housing program, or in unsheltered locations across the country. Several factors likely contributed to this historically high number. 1/4

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David Wakeham

What does it mean to survive in a world not built for you? As a person living with multiple, complex disabilities, I am forced to conduct this broken orchestra of my life, juggling pain, systemic barriers, and the constant threat of homelessness.

This is not just my story, but a reflection of countless others who have been failed by systems meant to support us.

#auspol #update #Advocacy #Cats #Homelessness #Poverty #Disabled #ActuallyAutistic #MutualAid

gofund.me/0fd9749a

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Just Bob ♒🇺🇲🪖🐧

Amazing how no one has even commented on this. Just like I knew it would be and just like the text in the bottom.

This is a "notice to remove 'personal property ' from public spaces because homeless people do not have US Constitutional rights in AmeriKKKa.

They've been coming for the homeless for decades but your silent because your not homeless.

They've been coming for non-white people for decades but your white so you barely make a whisper.

They've been coming for gay people for decades but your not gay so you barely make a whisper.

Soon, there will be no one left to stand up for you...

WAKE THE FUCK UP before your on the list.

The USA is a terrorist country ran by rich people. Are you rich enough?
#Homeless #Homelessness #AmeriKKKa #USConstitution #Portland #StJohns #PDX

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Politics Canada

Under the Ford government, housing construction is stagnating, rents are astronomical and any remaining affordable housing is rapidly disappearing. There also aren't enough emergency shelters. Last year, the province operated just 27,138 shelter beds, despite more than 80,000 people being homeless #housing #ontario #ford #homelessness thestar.com/opinion/contributo

Toronto StarDoug Ford’s America-inspired solution to homelessness won’t work. This willWhile Manitoba is instructing us on a "Made in Canada" approach to homelessness that works, Premier Ford is modelling dysfunctional policies championed by an irrational American president.
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Kim Perales

“To eliminate homes at the same time that we say we’re having a housing crisis is unconscionable.”

The Trump Regime's funding cuts for rental assistance is a nationwide crisis.

"Fresno CA officials warn that Trump’s budget cuts 50% of funding for local rental assistance.

🚨Republicans will cause a “mass displacement event” & force 15,000 family residents to be homeless.

Local Landlords will Lose
$72 Million in income."

#Austerity #Homelessness #Trumpcession #USPol fresnoland.org/2025/05/16/hous

Fresnoland · Thousands of Fresno residents would lose their homes under Trump’s budget plan, officials warnBy Pablo Orihuela
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